Engineering your digital transformation across the pharma value chain

The pharmaceutical industry is transforming – driven by scientific breakthroughs, advancement in digital technologies, and increasing expectations for better outcomes for patients. Navigating this change requires more than innovation and strategic insight. It demands efficient execution with a pragmatic approach.

At Zühlke, we combine deep domain expertise with engineering excellence to help life science organisations evolve and respond at speed to the changing digital landscape.

We help you to:

Accelerate scientific research and development to identify new therapies through digital solutions,
Modernise pharmaceutical production and operations to optimise and build in resilience,
Engage patients and healthcare providers to personalise treatments, empower patients and improve patient outcomes.

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Connecting the health ecosystem – from discovery to delivery

Zühlke supports every part of the healthcare ecosystem, from pharmaceutical companies and MedTech innovators to healthcare providers like hospitals and patient organisations.

Our unique strength lies in connecting these players through data, technology, and collaboration. With deep experience across sectors, we design and deliver integrated solutions that break down silos and drive systemic impact, helping health ecosystems work smarter, together.

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AI-enabled pharma manufacturing: From vision to reality

Pharma manufacturing is under pressure from fragile supply chains, inflexible production systems, complex regulations, and rising costs. Our latest whitepaper explores how AI is helping industry leaders tackle these challenges head-on.

Backed by real-world case studies from Pfizer, Gilead and Merck, it highlights how AI can unlock efficiency, agility, and resilience across manufacturing. Plus, it offers a step-by-step framework for compliant implementation in GxP environments.

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Transforming life sciences through digital excellence

See how leading life sciences organisations are building connected labs, automating personalised therapies, and scaling patient-facing digital solutions – from research to public health.

Chugai Pharma: faster time-to-market through a streamlined innovation process

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Revolutionising the Alzheimer’s research ecosystem

CUTISS: New hope for burn victims and skin surgery patients

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NHS COVID-19 app prevents 1 million infections

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Transform your lab, operations, and patient strategy

With over five decades of experience in the life sciences and healthcare sectors, we work with organisations to implement and deliver digital innovation across the entire value chain. We are recognised for solving complex strategy, engineering, and digital challenges across the life sciences industry, helping clients turn strategy into action with a pragmatic approach. We deliver with Swiss-clockwork-efficiency to meet critical timelines and rescue time-sensitive projects that are failing to deliver on expectations.

Our multidisciplinary teams work seamlessly with your team to:

identify insights from data pools
design and build complex, bespoke hardware and software solutions
modernise and optimise digital roadmaps

Zühlke's life sciences consulting teams ensure solutions are compliant, future-ready and align with our common goal to innovate, identify new treatments, and improve patient outcomes.

Embedding digital solutions in every step of the pharma value chain

From resilient operations and connected research environments to personalised patient engagement, life sciences organisations are rethinking how value is delivered to patients. We understand the urgency to modernise digital infrastructure, engineer future-proof capabilities, and maximise efficiency and agility to respond to a rapidly changing landscape.

Strengthen resilience and performance in pharmaceutical operations

Pharma supply chains face growing pressure to be smarter, cleaner, and more resilient. We help you integrate AI, machine learning, and real-time monitoring to cut downtime, boost visibility, and enable predictive quality control – while ensuring full compliance.

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Unlock scientific value through connected, data-driven R&D

Disconnected labs, manual data handling, and siloed systems slow down innovation. We help you maximise the full potential of your research environments by automating processes, unlocking insights, improving collaboration, and accelerating decision-making across your R&D value chain.

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Improve outcomes for patients with intuitive digital health solutions

Patients and healthcare professionals expect more. Digital tools improve their interactions, support adherence, and enable tailored treatments, leading to better-informed patients and improved outcomes.

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Strengthen resilience and performance in pharmaceutical operations

Pharmaceutical manufacturing is shifting toward greater efficiency, resilience, and sustainability. We help you incorporate AI, machine learning, and predictive monitoring to modernise infrastructure, improve reproducibility, and reduce cost and complexity. Whether it's digital twins, process automation, or energy-efficient production – we support your move toward smart, scalable production that meets evolving compliance and capacity needs.

Learn more about key considerations for pharma manufacturing in our whitepaper “Future-proof production: Implementing AI in pharmaceutical manufacturing.”

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Unlock scientific value through connected, data-driven R&D

Today’s research labs need to do more with less – and do it faster. We support the transition to digital-first, data-driven R&D environments by combining lab automation, robotics, interoperable systems, and AI-assisted analysis, while smart logistics and inventory management boost flexibility. By improving experiment traceability, reproducibility, and cross-site collaboration, we help you accelerate innovation in the drug development process.

Explore our key considerations on lab automation in this blog post.

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Pharma – Digital transformation is messy – but necessary: Why pharma labs must embrace complexity to move forward

Improve outcomes for patients with intuitive digital health solutions

From chatbots and virtual assistants to remote monitoring wearables, we design, develop and build tools that enhance the patient’s journey from diagnosis to treatment. We have developed secure, confidential and privacy-preserving data platforms that enhance the support for patients with chronic diseases, such as Alzheimer’s.

Learn more about how we created the NHS Test & Trace app in just 12 weeks, preventing over 1 million infections and nearly 10,000 deaths.

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NHS COVID-19 app prevents 1 million infections

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Driving impact through strategic partnerships

Zühlke is a contributing member of the Pistoia Alliance, actively shaping the future of AI in life sciences. As part of this global precompetitive collaboration, we unite pharmaceutical companies, technology providers, and research organisations to accelerate innovation and responsible AI adoption.

We also collaborate with a wide range of life sciences, technology, regulatory, and academic partners, connecting innovation across the healthcare ecosystem.